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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. MIT ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9DTackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ... working to reduce poverty, one person at a time. MIT-Student-Tress-01-10243.jpg Image: Melanie Gonick ... Tress began her studies at MIT on a premed track. However, a MISTI internship at a hospital in a poor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-time3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Engineering at MIT, says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an ... industry. In 2013, Hart created an MIT graduate course, 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), that explores the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101Hot New Solar Cell
MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the ... no adverse effect on neighboring healthy cells. MIT-Electric-Therapy_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ... Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementClearing the air
graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and three one-month interns from the MIT Alumni Association’s Student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/clearing-airVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with uncertainy. MIT-james-magarian_1024.jpg Jim Magarian is a third-year graduate student and an ... engineering leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... biological separation, and other applications. MIT-Graphene-Roll-1024.jpg A new manufacturing process ... Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ... (seated left to right): Ric Fulop, CEO and co-founder; A. John Hart, MIT professor; Jonah Myerberg, CTO; ... (standing left to right): Yet Ming-Chiang, MIT professor; Chris Schuh, MIT professor; Ely Sachs, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a misdiagnosis. Challenged to reimagine the ambulance of the future, five MIT students — Paolo Adajar, ... patients who are in critical condition. incube-mit-1024.jpg The MIT team, which reimagined the ambulance of ... inside a glass cube housed on the MIT campus. Their effort was part of InCube, a global startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ... — more than a thousandfold improvement. MIT-Metal-Air-Batteries-1024.jpg Researchers demonstrating the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesA new way to provide cooling without power
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
yank on it, the Silly Putty will snap like a brittle, solid bar. MIT-Gel-Chirps-01_1024.jpg High ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ... processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materialsKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... avalanches and landslides. At MIT, Kamrin is happiest when surrounded by creativity and noise. “I come from ... a very loud family, and I like the fact that MIT is boisterous and loud,” Kamrin says. “When you walk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandEngineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces
printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ... to be lightweight and conformable, similar to fabric and textiles. Image: M. Scott Brauer Now MIT ... Sebastian Pattinson, who conducted the research as a postdoc at MIT. Pattinson, now on the faculty at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-flexible-mesh-ankle-and-knee-bracesPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ... a time,” says Sai Nithin Kantareddy, a PhD student in the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory. “This work is basically ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
impacts compare to traditional land-based mining — are currently unknown. Now oceanographers at MIT, the ... engineering at MIT. “Our study is the first of its kind on these midwater plumes, and can be a major ... team’s study appears today in Nature Communications: Earth and Environment. Peacock’s co-authors at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
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